I am not trying to hash up any old arguments on weather or not facemasks should be worn. I am here to say that I am eternally thankful that I require my DD to wear one when pitching. During a 10u TB game today she took a line drive off her facemask. When the play was all said and done she was certainly shaken up and her facemask was hanging over her ear. She went to the bench for the remainder of the inning so that both her and the DW could calm down and dry up some tears. As her team came off the field to bat, she told the coach that she was ready to go back in and she wanted to pitch. She proceeded to strike out the side that inning and had the game winning RBI in her following at bat. Like I said, not here to argue about wearing them or not, but I can tell you that my day would have ended differently.